On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ hexdump -n4 -C $(which python) | awk '{print $2 $3 $4 $5 }'I believe that's used as a file signature. All you're doing is looking at the first four bytes of the file; 0xCAFEBABE is used as a signature by Java class files, and some others. You can probably find the same signature in other programs on your system. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
